Every category where a model named Hurricane Electric for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Managed DNS	Network and edge	0%	19 of 78	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Hurricane Electric yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Hurricane Electric across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Other notable alternatives include Hurricane Electric (free with IPv6 and DNSSEC support)” Mistral Small · Managed DNS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best 100% Free Classic DNS” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed DNS · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hurricane Electric, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hurricane Electric was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare DNS14 of 1811Not among the top eight

DNSimple8 of 183Not among the top eight

ClouDNS8 of 180Not among the top eight

Amazon Route 536 of 180Not among the top eight

Google Cloud DNS6 of 180Not among the top eight

easyDNS4 of 181Not among the top eight

deSEC4 of 180Not among the top eight

Akamai Edge DNS3 of 180Not among the top eight

DNS Made Easy2 of 180Not among the top eight

IBM NS1 Connect2 of 180Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Hurricane Electric. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 17 of the 18 answers that named Hurricane Electric and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zipdo.co14

ioriver.io9

itechguides.com7

sourceforge.net7

wifitalents.com7

cloudflare.com5

cloudns.net5

quicksprout.com5

g2.com4

slashdot.org4

No domain is on file for Hurricane Electric, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

zipdo.co/service/dns-hosting13

ioriver.io/blog/top-dns-providers9

zipdo.co/service/dns-management9

itechguides.com/best/managed-dns-services6

quicksprout.com/best-dns-hosting-providers5

wifitalents.com/service/dns5

wifitalents.com/service/dns-hosting5

cloudflare.com/plans4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Hurricane Electric stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 2,900 a month (“hurricane electric”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 98 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 19 of 78 in Managed DNS

Segment leader

84%

Cloudflare DNS

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 18 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Hurricane Electric

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Hurricane Electric; a claim can dispute any of them.

Hurricane Electric (dns.he.net) 1

Follow Hurricane Electric

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Hurricane Electric's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Hurricane Electric, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Hurricane Electric by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Hurricane Electric is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Hurricane Electric, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.